Foreign News: Well, Well!

Chuckles were heard in tens of thousands of British homes when the famed
London weekly Sketch arrived and was ruffled over to a peculiarly
English full page cartoon in decorous pastel colors.

Depicted was a sophisticated bookshop into which an innocent,
pink-cheeked old lady had blundered, on her Christmas shopping. The
captionirresistibly amusing to Britons, but puzzling to many a U. S.
citizenread:

WELL, WELL!

Dear Old lady (to assistant in a bookshop) : "Have you got this Book on
Loneliness by Mr. Wells?"